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[โ€“] kogasa@programming.dev 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A dollar each? It's $3.50 for a 10lb bag here

[โ€“] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

What could a potato cost, 10 dollars?

[โ€“] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, same here, and even that's high. I know you can get deals where you can get 2 of those bags for like $5. It's one of the cheapest vegetables you can get. Definitely a great food to buy if you're not doing too well financially. Cheap, nutritious, filling, and tons of recipes.

For comparison I got my Halloween bag of candy at Costco for $20 bucks... candy is ridiculously expensive.

[โ€“] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just pulled up the [Department Store] app I have on my phone and looked at the individual prices, it says $0.82 each

I'm gonna be honest, I could not possibly tell you how much a potato weighs, so I have no idea how many potatoes come in the $3.27 5 lbs bag

[โ€“] shottymcb@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A standard russet potato is 148g(according to the nutritional information on a sack o' potatoes) , 5 lbs=2270g. 2270รท148=15.3. $3.27รท15.3 potatoes is 21 cents per tater.

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I think I estimated about three for a dollar so that more or less tracks. Who's paying a dollar each?

[โ€“] aidan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This, priced at $0.375 per potato, puts a potato at 213 grams

[โ€“] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

That's if you buy individually wrapped, gotta buy them by the bag.

[โ€“] Syd@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can spend $1.45 a potato where I'm at

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah well we can't all live in San Francisco